{"id":493529,"date":"2026-10-12T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493529\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:02:07","slug":"readers-react-to-essay-on-becerra-ducking-the-media-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493529\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers react to essay on Becerra ducking the media \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re \u201cBecerra is ghosting the media \u2014 me included\u201d (Oct. 8<\/a>): I want to compliment U-T Community Opinion Editor Tania Navarro for an insightful and spot-on essay. It is obvious Becerra is not only ghosting the media but the general public as well. This is not surprising as he has no legitimate accomplishments to talk about.<\/p>\n

He is an unimaginative political hack who likely will be ushered into office because he belongs to the political party that has California in its death grip. I will be shocked if she hears from him or his handlers as it is clear he has absolutely nothing to gain by public exposure and as the first (and likely only) debate proved he is not articulate, well informed, or ready to govern.<\/p>\n

There is a vast difference in being informed on issues and spouting talking points.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Larry Lay, Santee<\/p>\n

I was saddened to read that columnist Tania Navarro has apparently been \u201cghosted\u201d by gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra. Access to candidates by journalists allows the public to gain a clearer picture of what the candidates believe are the challenges facing our state and informs voters about candidates\u2019 plans to tackle these important issues. I applaud Navarro\u2019s attempt to gain answers.<\/p>\n

I was however troubled by Navarro\u2019s statement that \u201cas a Latina, I wanted to see a Hispanic go big in California.\u201d Can you imagine a White journalist making a similar statement, saying that they wanted to see \u201ca White go big in California\u201d? The outrage would be immediate. Aren\u2019t we far past the days of using race as a factor in deciding who shall represent us in government?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mark Heinze, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cBecerra is ghosting the media \u2014 me included\u201d (Oct. 8): I want to compliment U-T Community Opinion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-493529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}